The 10 Weeks Festival Kicks Off

The Arts Programming Sustainability Initiative (APSI), an effort led by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, is pleased to announce the second annual Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival, a collaborative event that highlights ten weeks of more than 100 arts events and performances throughout the city to raise money for arts education opportunities and also for children in Springfield Public Schools through the Care to Learn fund.

The 10 Weeks Festival will run from March 12, 2010, through May 23, 2010, and will feature existing arts events, festivals, performances and concerts by the following arts organizations:

Dance
Missouri State University Theatre and Dance Department
Springfield Ballet

Music
Boys Choir of Springfield
Children’s Choirs of Southwest Missouri
C-Street Jam
Drury University Music Department
Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts
Missouri State University Music Department
Springfield Chamber Chorus

Attendees will be asked to donate $1 (or more) per ticket throughout The 10 Weeks Festival with a goal of raising at least $10,000 in 10 Weeks. Donated funds will then be split evenly between a new Arts in Education Endowment at the Community Foundation of the Ozarks that will provide funding for arts organizations to take programs into area schools and the Care to Learn Fund (with a fund match of 3 to 1), established to help meet the basic needs of Springfield Public School students.

Arts in Action: The 10 Weeks Festival provides an opportunity for arts organizations to come together in a series of events that will benefit children and the arts, believing that to sustain the arts; the arts have to help sustain the community. The Festival was created by the Arts Programming Sustainability Initiative (APSI) as an effort funded by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
For more information, call 417-864-6199, ext. 14 or visit our website at www.the10weeks.com.